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Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer of California from 2001 and 2002
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Tornado Cuts Through La Plat
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PIA03707
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Multi-angle Imaging SpectroR
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Tornado Cuts Through La Plata, Maryland |
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A category F4 tornado tore through La Plata, Maryland on April 28, 2002, killing 5 and injuring more than 100 people. Vegetation and surface structures were pulled up or damaged along a swath measuring 39 kilometers long. This pair of images from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) illustrates the strip of flattened vegetation left by the tornado. The top image was acquired by MISR's nadir (vertical-viewing) camera on May 1,2002. The tornado swath is barely visible in this natural-color view, which has a spatial resolution of 275 meters. In the lower view, near infrared data from the May 1 date are combined with data from about one year earlier (April 28,2001) to highlight vegetation changes between the two dates. Here, the 2002 (post tornado) data are displayed as blue/green, and the 2001 data as red. In this temporal false color composite, areas with less vegetation on the later date appear bright red. The horizontal red line between the Potomac and Patuxent rivers in Maryland indicates the swath cut by the tornado. Washington, DC is located in the upper left-hand quadrant of the images. The images utilize data from blocks 59 to 61 within World Reference System-2 path 15.Another view [ http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/gallery.htm?name=Tornado ] of the area damaged by the tornado at a spatial resolution of 15 meters per pixel is available from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER [ http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/default.htm ]), also onboard the Terra satellite. MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology. |
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Sydney, Australia
PIA03498
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ASTER
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Sydney, Australia |
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This image was acquired on October 12, 2002 by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite. With its 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region, and its high spatial resolution of 15 to 90 meters (about 50 to 300 feet), ASTER will image Earth for the next 6 years to map and monitor the changing surface of our planet. ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched December 18,1999, on NASA's Terra satellite. The instrument was built by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. A joint U.S./Japan science team is responsible for validation and calibration of the instrument and the data products. Dr. Anne Kahle at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, is the U.S. Science team leader, Bjorn Eng of JPL is the project manager. ASTER is the only high resolution imaging sensor on Terra. The Terra mission is part of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise, along-term research and technology program designed to examine Earth's land, oceans, atmosphere, ice and life as a total integrated system. The broad spectral coverage and high spectral resolution of ASTER will provide scientists in numerous disciplines with critical information for surface mapping, and monitoring dynamic conditions and temporal change. Example applications are: monitoring glacial advances and retreats, monitoring potentially active volcanoes, identifying crop stress, determining cloud morphology and physical properties, wetlands evaluation, thermal pollution monitoring, coral reef degradation, surface temperature mapping of soils and geology, and measuring surface heat balance. Size: 42 x 32 km (25.1 x 19.2 miles) Location: 33.7 deg. South lat., 151.4 deg. East long. Orientation: North at top Image Data: ASTER bands 1,2, and 3. Original Data Resolution: 15 m Date Acquired: October 12, 2001 |
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